Query Builder for New Jersey Birth Data: 1990-2017 - Count

Overview

About this dataset

The data in this query module come from the New Jersey Birth Certificate
database. The database is maintained by the New Jersey Department of Health,
Office of Vital Statistics and Registry. All data shown are for New Jersey residents regardless of where the birth occurred.

How to build your query

The most current data year and all births are pre-selected in the steps below.
If you do not want to choose different years or filter your results by any maternal,
infant, or health services utilization characteristics, skip to the last STEP bar and
select how you would like to display the results (i.e., which rows and columns you
want in your data table) then click SUBMIT at the bottom left of the query builder
steps to get your query result.

If you want to only see data for certain years, maternal characteristics, infant
characteristics, or health services utilization characteristics, follow the numbered
steps below to narrow your query. When you are done filtering your query, open the
last STEP bar to select which rows and columns you want in your data table.
After that, click SUBMIT at the bottom left of the query builder steps to get your
query result.

Step 1: Select year of birth

(
Year: 2017
)

Select year grouping and year(s). Default is single years, most recent year.

Selecting years

Use Ctrl to make multiple selections or drag the mouse to select consecutive years.

Choose age groups below or enter custom age groups.

How to Specify Age Groups

Use a hyphen to indicate a range of ages (e.g., "5-8" will include ages 5, 6, 7, and 8).

You may use greater than (>) or less than (<) symbols.

You may use a plus sign (+) to indicate all ages equal to or greater
than (e.g.,"35+" yields all those aged 35 and over).

Enter "unknown" to include those with unreported age in total results.

Enter custom age group (Hover over blue ? bubble to the right for more information.)

Step 3: Select mother's race and/or ethnicity

(Mother's Race and/or Ethnicity: all)

Race and Ethnicity

Race and Hispanic ethnicity are collected separately on birth certificates.

Therefore each birth record has both a race (White, Black, etc.) and an ethnicity
(Hispanic or non-Hispanic) for the mother and data for race and ethnicity may be presented
separately (Race or Hispanic origin) or combined (Race/Ethnicity).

Choose race, ethnicity, or race/ethnicity combined. Click the yellow ? for more information.

Mother's race/ethnicity

All races/ethnicities

White, non-Hispanic

Black, non-Hispanic

Hispanic (of any race)

Asian, non-Hispanic

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic

American Indian/Alaska Native, non-Hispanic

Other Single Race, non-Hispanic

Two or More Races, non-Hispanic

Mother's Race

Race groups include both Hispanics and non-Hispanics.

Mother's race

All races

White

Black or African American

Asian

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

American Indian/Alaska Native

Other Single Race

Two or More Races

Mother's Ethnicity

Ethnicity groups include persons of any race.

Mother's Hispanic origin

Both Hispanic and non-Hispanic

Hispanic

Non-Hispanic

Step 4: Select other maternal characteristics

Choose other characteristics of the mother to include in your analysis. The default is all mothers.

Mother's Birthplace

NCHS uses "United States" to mean the 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
U.S. Territories are Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa*, and Northern Marianas*. (*Included in "Remainder of World" prior to 2014.)
To see results for the 50 states, DC, and territories combined, select both "U.S. States and D.C." and "U.S. Territories."
In NJ, when maternal nativity = U.S. Territories, approximately 97% are from Puerto Rico.

Nativity (birthplace)

U.S. States and D.C.

U.S. Territories

Remainder of World

Marital status

Both married and unmarried

Married

Not Married

Education

Parity

Parity is the number of previous live-born children a woman has delivered.
Select 0 if looking for information about the first child born to a woman.

Parity (previous births)

None

One

Two

Three or More

Tobacco use during pregnancy

Yes

No

Alcohol Use

Alcohol use during pregnancy is not collected on the new electronic birth registration system that was installed in New Jersey hospitals beginning in July, 2014, therefore all maternal alcohol use data after 2013 is shown as Unknown.

Alcohol use during pregnancy (1990-2013)

Yes

No

Drug Use

Reporting of drug use during pregnancy was incomplete before 1996 and after 2013,
therefore all maternal drug use data for 1990-1995 and after 2013 are shown as Unknown.

Drug use during pregnancy (1990-2013)

Yes

No

Medicaid Status

Medicaid status is obtained from an item in the birth registration system, not from Medicaid claims.
This item was not collected with birth registration prior to 1997,
therefore all Medicaid status data for 1990-1996 are shown as Unknown.

Medicaid status (1997+)

Medicaid

Not Medicaid

Step 5: Select infant characteristics

Choose infant characteristics to include in your analysis. The default is all infants.

Sex

All infants

Male

Female

Plurality

All data in NJSHAD are for individual infants, therefore a set of twins shows as two births not one set
and so forth for triplets, quadruplets, and so on.

Plurality refers to the number of fetuses in the pregnancy not the number born, thus if there are fetal deaths
during the pregnancy any surviving children are still considered multiples. Therefore, the number of quadruplets
will not always be a multiple of four, the number of triplets a multiple of three, etc.

Gestational Age

Gestational Age is the period of time a baby is carried in the uterus or the duration of the pregnancy,
measured from the first day of the last menstrual period. Full-term gestation is between 37 and 42 weeks.

Gestational age

Size for Gestational Age

Small for gestational age (SGA) is a term used to describe a baby who is smaller than usual
for the number of weeks of pregnancy. SGA babies usually have birthweights below the 10th percentile
for babies of the same gestational age. This means that they weigh less than 90 percent of all other
babies of the same gestational age.

Large for gestational age (LGA) is a term used to describe a baby who is larger than usual
for the number of weeks of pregnancy. LGA babies usually have birthweights above the 90th percentile
for babies of the same gestational age. This means that they weigh more than 90 percent of all other
babies of the same gestational age.

Large or small for gestational age

Small

Appropriate

Large

Apgar score

All scores

Low (0 - 6)

Normal (7 - 10)

Step 6: Select health services utilization characteristics

Choose health services utilization characteristics to include in your analysis. The default is all characteristics.

Prenatal Care Recommendations

It is recommended that pregnant women begin prenatal care during their first three months
(first trimester) of pregnancy.

Prenatal care onset

Number of Prenatal Care Visits

ACOG recommends the following prenatal care visit schedule:

1 visit per month (every 4 weeks) until week 28

2 visits per month (every 2 to 3 weeks) from weeks 28 to 36

1 visit per week from week 36 until birth

Certain medical conditions in pregnancy may necessitate more visits.

Number of prenatal care visits

Adequacy of prenatal care (Kotelchuck method)

All births regardless of prenatal care adequacy

Inadequate

Adequate

Breech presentation

Method of delivery

Freestanding Birthing Centers

No freestanding birthing centers were in operation in New Jersey between 2003 and 2010.

Place of birth

Type of birth attendant

Feeding at Discharge

Data on the type of feeding at the time of discharge was not collected prior to 1997,
therefore all feeding at discharge data for 1990-1996 are shown as Unknown.

Feeding type at hospital discharge (1997+)

Step 7: Select mother's geographic area of residence

(Geographic Area of Residence: all)

Selecting Geography

Select the geographic areas you want to include.

Choose the geographic areas to include in your analysis. The default is all New Jersey residents.

Mother's county of residence

Military Bases

Prior to 1999, all births to residents of military bases were assigned to neighboring municipalities.

Municipality of residence: Default is all 565 municipalities.
(To choose certain municipalities, select county first. County name given for townships with duplicate names.)

Atlantic County

Bergen County

Burlington County

Camden County

Cape May County

Cumberland County

Essex County

Gloucester County

Hudson County

Hunterdon County

Mercer County

Middlesex County

Monmouth County

Morris County

Ocean County

Passaic County

Salem County

Somerset County

Sussex County

Union County

Warren County

Military

Other

Step 8: Select state in which birth occurred

Choose state in which birth occurred. The default is all births to NJ residents regardless of place of occurrence.

New Jersey

Out of State

Step 9: How to display the data

Display By (category)

Primary group by field

Defines the data's primary grouping dimension. The
primary grouping is required and also controls the
ordering of the result's data rows. In MS-Excel
and other graphing packages this is typically referred
to as the the "dataset's category". If viewing in a 2-d
table layout then this value/dimension is associated
with table's "row" values. Others will refer to this
value as the first "cross by" or the first dimension.

Group By (series)

Optional secondary group by field

Defines the 2nd field (or dimension) to be used to group
and aggregate values by. MS-Excel chart users will
commonly refer to this as the dataset's "series"
field. If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this
field is associated with data table's value columns.
Series group bys are optional. Maps and some charts,
like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to
handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g.
they only work with the primary category type group
by being specified.

Chart

Optional chart graph

Defines the optional chart graphic to display.

NOTE: Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are
currently not programmed to handle datasets that have
more than one group by e.g. they only work with the
primary category type group by being specified. All
other charts will only work with a maximum of 2 group
bys e.g. if the fixed group by exists then the series
group by can NOT be used with charting or maps.

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designed solely to enhance the well-being of a specific community, which
may include the State. Activities include informing evidence-based
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